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For my character, whenever I load things like hyposprays or powercells in his inventory slot for use during the game, they do appear in the equipent-bar in the inventoryscreen, but not in the equipmentbar on my HUD. So I can't use those items, believe me, I tried. Anyone know how to fix this?

I haven't played STO in a while, because of some issues with internet being really slow. Now that that's fixed, I wanted to try again.

During loading, my Windows Firewall pops up and blocked something called GameClient.exe by Cryptic. Can I allow this through my firewall, or is it something hazardous??

You should allow it. There should be two executable files of interest, one is the launcher and the other the game client. Ideally, you should launch the launcher first as it will check for patches and give you some notices and provide some other options. When you click "Engage", it runs the GameClient.exe file to actually play the game. You can skip the launcher and go straight to the game client if you so desire. (weird things may happen if you skip a patch though...)

For my character, whenever I load things like hyposprays or powercells in his inventory slot for use during the game, they do appear in the equipent-bar in the inventoryscreen, but not in the equipmentbar on my HUD. So I can't use those items, believe me, I tried. Anyone know how to fix this?

On the top right hand corner of your power tray, there are two tiny little buttons. One of them will pop out a little window of all your available abilities. Find the hyposprays, etc. in there and drag them into the tray.

I have the same problem. I find that right clicking and dragging the item from my equipment bar of my character screen into an empty spot on my HUD equipment bar will fix it.

Or, I noticed that when it does get equipped it does not always show up in the spot you think. Expand your HUD's equipment bar to show more lines and you may find that it was equipped to a different number spot. If that's the case just drag it to where you want it to be.

I have the same problem. I find that right clicking and dragging the item from my equipment bar of my character screen into an empty spot on my HUD equipment bar will fix it.

Or, I noticed that when it does get equipped it does not always show up in the spot you think. Expand your HUD's equipment bar to show more lines and you may find that it was equipped to a different number spot. If that's the case just drag it to where you want it to be.